And so to The White Queen, wherein the BBC noted the international
success of HBO’s Game of Thrones — mainly British cast, playing
out a big, sexy story inspired by the Wars of the Roses — and went, “Hang
on. We could do ‘mainly British cast doing sexy in Wars of the Roses!’ This
is BBC 101 stuff! We are born to do such things! We can do people fresh off
stage at the RSC saying ‘I fancy I shall make a fool of you, sir!’ and
wandering around knot-gardens,